coming up for air...snippets and glimpses of this and that along the way...
Trying to keep a positive forward motion going in a sometimes not so positive world. I tinker with a variety of arts and crafts...and love most especially to spend time with family and friends.

Friday, March 22, 2013

motivation

sometimes it's difficult to get going. for me, that time usually comes in winter....more specifically, toward the very end of winter. i lack motivation, i become sluggish-feeling. i know what i need to do...i have a list of plans and projects a mile long i want to get busy on...but i lack that one simple thing : motivation. and then......
the sun comes out. as if by some wondrous magic it appears, suspended in a sky that is the most gorgeous shade of blue. and all i want to do is sit in it. it is such total immersion in loveliness that i can almost feel strength and motivation coursing through my veins as if i have been given some wonderful, miraculous medicine. and i soak in it. it is as if i am awakening, literally, from a long gray winter of slumber....and the sap is running again.
it is glorious. i see color. i see and hear the birds. i feel the warmth as i sit with my face to that marvelous sun. and i know.
it is spring. it is time to wake up and get back to this business of life. it is time to move forward into the new freshness of beautiful things.
it is spring. and i am looking ahead with my face full to the sun and the sky, taking deep gulps of it with my arms and my heart open wide to welcome it.
it is spring. and it is time to begin anew.

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My Lovelies

I tinker with wire and beads and many other fun things to create a variety of lovelies.

Really good thoughts

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me....Anything can happen, child. Anything can be. -Shel SilversteinThe secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."

-Thucydides

" I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." -E.B.White

"Faith is not a dirty word. And hope is not for fools."

-Robert Downey. Jr.

"You are an extraordinary woman, how can you expect to live an ordinary life?"

- Louisa May Alcott

"Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it."

-Confucious

"The challenge is not to win but to conquer the fear. It's not the other people you have to beat, it's yourself."

-Anonymous

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."

-Albert Einstein

Blessings

having dreams...and going after them

all the colors of fall

The mountains....and the ocean

time

forgiveness

hot tea and a fire in the fireplace...or sweet iced tea (with lemon, of course!) and a rocking chair on the porch

Chick-Fil-A and Krispy Kreme

chocolate!

flowers...the first ones...those first little bursts of color that tell you it will soon be spring...and then all the others...that ocean of color!